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Double Flowering Crab Apple (Standard)
Malus ioensis ‘Plena’
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Double Flowering Crab Apple (Standard) - Malus ioensis ‘Plena’
Trained as a standard, this crab apple presents a clear straight trunk topped by a rounded head that fills with fully double, rose-pink, scented flowers in mid to late spring. Malus ioensis ‘Plena’ flowers noticeably later than most crab apples, so it extends the blossom season after the ornamental pears and earlier Malus have finished, and the doubled blooms look closer to small roses than to apple blossom. Being a standard, the head sits above underplanting and the form stays consistent from tree to tree.
Why the Double Flowering Crab Apple Standard
Trained Form: A clear grafted trunk with a rounded crown, giving a formal, repeatable shape suited to avenues and pairs.
Double Blooms: Fully double rose-pink flowers with real substance and a light fragrance, unlike the single flowers of most crabs.
Late Season: Flowering comes after the main spring blossom rush, stretching the display out.
Little Fruit Litter: The doubled flowers set only sparse fruit, so there is minimal drop onto paving beneath.
Autumn Tint: Foliage takes on orange and russet tones before leaf fall in cooler districts.
Ideal Applications
Formal avenue: Matched standards down a driveway give an even canopy line at a controlled height.
Entry pair: Two trees flanking a gate or path for symmetry and a defined spring moment.
Above a low hedge or garden bed: The clear trunk lets you plant right up underneath.
Courtyard blossom tree: A compact head keeps it in scale with a paved outdoor room.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2.5 to 3m for a close repeated row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Winter while dormant
Soil & Drainage: Moist, moderately fertile, free draining soil, tolerant of clay loam but not of standing water
Establishment Care: Stake the standard properly at planting and check the ties each season until the trunk is genuinely self-supporting. Water deeply through the first two summers, mulch to the drip line, and rub off any shoots that appear on the clear stem or from below the graft.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 5m
Width: 3 to 4m across the head
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: A cultivar of a species from central North America
Flower Colour: Rose pink, fully double
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







